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Team of oxen

AG1.001
Item
[ca. 1914]

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Four oxen team pulling a binder cutting wheat. Two oxen with horns, two without.

Horses hitched to a buggy

AG1.002
Item
[ca. 1910]

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Unknown man in a buggy with a five horse hitch stopped in front of a barn.

Breaking the sod

AG1.006
Item
ca. 1915

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

One six-horse and one three-horse team pulling breaking plows. A man riding each plow. Young boy with a dog behind the first team. A two-horse team pulling another implement, perhaps a packer? A man standing at the side waiting.

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Oxen pulling "Routley's Hardware" dray

AG1.008
Item
1908-9

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Names on back are Bill Bowers(?) and Wes Spence who are standing posing. Buildings in background are store fronts. A.O. Routley had a Massey Harris business in Rosetown 1930-46. Oxen were not used after 1910.

Oxen hitched to a buggy

AG1.009
Item
1908-9

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Two men wearing suits are riding in the buggy. One man is holding reins and a whip. They are in a grass meadow - no road. The ox has shoulder and side scars, probably from harness used for plowing.

Jno N. Ford on wagon pulled by two oxen.

AG1.010
Item
ca. 1910

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

One ox is smaller than the other. They are travelling on a well-worn track. The man on the wagon is wearing a dress hat. Jno. N. Ford homesteaded NE 14-31-19 W3 (SW Stranraer) in 1910. He drove these oxen until 1919.

Wagons and possessions.

AG1.011
Item
ca. 1915

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Eight or nine wagons and teams of horses; one buggy and team. The wagons are mostly loaded with possessions or goods and are halted on a hillside slanted downward.

Three Horses in Slough

AG1.012
Item
ca. 1922

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Horses are pawing at the water. One horse appears wet as if it rolled. There is a two-storey frame house in the background.

Bareback riding

AG1.014
Item
ca. 1915

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Four people riding horses bareback and astride beside a man in a buggy. Two are men, two are women. Horses are work animals, one is a Clydesdale, one a Belgian. The other two are hybrids.

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Whiskey Johnson's sod house

AG2.003
Item
[ca 1916]

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Two men and a woman and an early car in front of a low sod house. A small frame building behind the house. A good view of the desolate prairie landscape.

Family on ground in front of house with prairie background

AG2.010
Item
Unknown

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Small 1 1/2 storey wooden house, painted or whitewashed, wooden outbuildings. Family of one older man, man and woman, four children of which three are teens; all seated on the grass.

Chicken house and coops

AG2.016
Item
ca. 1930-1939

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

Chicken house and coops with white hens in a yard.

Old collapsing barn

AG2.017
Item
1975

Parte deRosetown General Photograph Collection

The Clifford Clark barn, NE of Zealandia taken in 1975. This barn had a hayloft, pigeon houses, and a large hip roof. It is partially caved in from the top.